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A fugitive father who spent nearly four years on the run with his three young children was killed during a police shootout in New Zealand on Monday, bringing an end to one of the country’s most high-profile manhunts. 

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Tom Phillips vanished into the Waikato wilderness with his children shortly before Christmas in 2021 following a dispute with their mother, who held sole custody, according to local officials.

Police said Phillips was fatally shot during an attempted burglary at a supply store, where he was accompanied by one of his children. Phillips died at the scene, and his children – Ember, now believed to be 9, Maverick, 10, and Jayda, 12 – were safely recovered and are now in care, according to officials.

«This is an emotional development. To know the children are safe, and now receiving care after nearly four years, is an absolute relief,» Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers said in a statement. «We are grateful to see an end to what has been three years of torment for the children’s family.»

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During the four years Tom Phillips went missing, surveillance footage has captured the fugitive dad attempting to rob a store. (New Zealand Police)

Police were alerted around 2:30 a.m. local time Monday to a suspected break-in at a supply store in Piopio, a small town located in the North Island where Phillips was believed to have been hiding out with his children.

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When officers spotted two people riding a four-wheeled bike near the scene of the burglary, they suspected Phillips was involved and deployed road spikes on a nearby street to intercept them, according to a police news release.

Phillips opened fire on officers, striking one in the upper body and leaving him seriously injured. Police said they returned fire and killed Phillips. The child with him was unharmed and taken into custody, while the wounded officer was transported to a hospital for treatment.

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Ember, now 9, Maverick, 10, and Jayda, 12, went missing nearly four years ago in New Zealand. (New Zealand Police)

Later that afternoon, officers discovered the remaining two children, a boy and a girl, alone at a makeshift camp about one mile from the scene of the shooting. Both were recovered unharmed, officials said.

Authorities had long expressed concerns about the children’s welfare, saying they were being raised in isolation without access to formal schooling or healthcare.  

Despite several reported sightings in the Waikato region over the years, police efforts to locate the family had repeatedly come up empty.

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New Zealand Police discovered a makeshift campsite and quad bikes in the wilderness where fugitive father Tom Phillips last hid his children. (New Zealand Police)

Police said Phillips already faced charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated wounding and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Officials recovered three guns at the scene of the shooting, including the weapon he used to fire on officers, and found several more at his camp.

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Surveillance footage also captured him previously attempting to break into another retail store on Aug. 27.

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The children’s mother, Cat, described the news of Phillips’ death as bringing a «wave of complex emotions,» according to local outlet RNZ.

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Cat, the mother of the missing children, said she was deeply relieved to hear that her children were found.

Cat, the mother of the missing children, said she was deeply relieved to hear that her children were found. (New Zealand Police)

«First and foremost, we are deeply relieved that for our tamariki this ordeal has come to an end,» she said, using the Māori word for children. «[The children] have been dearly missed every day for nearly four years, and we are looking forward to welcoming them home with love and care.»

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«They have endured a long and difficult journey, and we ask for privacy as we help them adjust and reintegrate into a stable and loving environment,» she added.

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ICE director says Portland facility faces violence with ‘little help from local police’

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Federal immigration officials say their Portland, Oregon, facility has come under nightly attack, with little help from local police because of political directives from city leaders.

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In an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill Melugin, Cammila Wamsley, director of Portland’s ICE office, said the facility has faced violence for more than 100 consecutive nights, with Portland police largely absent under guidance from the mayor and city council.

«I just, I can’t figure out what’s happening at the FDA. I’m totally baffled by it,» Wamsley said, describing her frustration at seeing federal staff attacked outside the building while officers inside lack jurisdiction to intervene. «It’s frustrating for us to watch people be attacked on the street and know that we don’t have the authority to be able to really step in unless there’s some nexus to federal law.»

She said nightly protests have escalated beyond chants and signs, with bottle rockets striking the ICE building, rocks shattering windows, lasers targeting officers’ eyes and barricades blocking vehicles.

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People protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility as federal agents watch from the rooftop in Portland, Ore., Wednesday. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

Wamsley said protesters have followed ICE staff members home and doxxed at least six employees.

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«Later, towards the evening and around dark, there are a lot of folks that come up dressed in all black,» she explained. «They are here to wreak havoc. They’ll block our cars, throw paint, damage property and even try to follow our folks home.»

She warned that when crowds swell quickly, the violence becomes more dangerous.

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A Federal Protective Service officer stands guard in front of demonstrators as protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcementdraw hundreds to the ICE headquarters in south Portland, Ore., Sunday.  (John Rudoff/Reuters)

«We’ve seen it before. The folks here can go from a crowd of 50 to a crowd of 1,000 in 30 minutes,» she explained. «Sometimes we only have 20 officers here. We would not be able to defend the building with that show of force.»

Wamsley said the Portland Police Department has been slow to respond — and sometimes doesn’t respond at all — because of city policy. She explained that assaults have occurred outside and across the street from the building, but police have either taken too long to arrive or not shown up at all.

«That is not the stance they would take six blocks from here, but it is the stance they take with us because of guidance from the mayor and city council,» Wamsley said.

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Anti-ICE protesters roll out a guillotine in front of the ICE field office in Portland, Ore. (X/@KatieDaviscourt)

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Portland mayor’s office and police department for comment.

Still, Wamsley said ICE staff remain committed to their mission despite the unrest.

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«The people that work here are here to serve the American public,» she said. «They are here to enforce the same immigration laws we’ve had in place since the 1950s. Nothing has changed in that regard. We come to work every day. We do our job the way we have been doing it, and we’ll continue to do that.»

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Federal agents arrest a person outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon, on June 18, 2025.

Federal agents arrest a person outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., in June. (X/@choeshow/@frontlinesTPUSA)

Todd Rignel, assistant special agent for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Oregon, said federal agencies are targeting Antifa-linked groups they blame for organizing much of the unrest.

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«They’re not just facing HSI. They’re facing the FBI, ATF, DEA, IRS — all of these agencies,» he said. «That’s a force to be reckoned with.»

Portland remains a flashpoint for unrest with the ICE facility at the center of nightly confrontations.

President Donald Trump announced plans to send 200 National Guard troops to Portland to support immigration authorities. Officials said the troops would be stationed near protest areas.

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The warnings follow an attack on an ICE facility in Dallas Sept. 24. Authorities said two detainees were killed and another was hospitalized after a gunman opened fire before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. 

Investigators said shell casings recovered bore an «ANTI-ICE» message.

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Fox News Digital’s Madison Colombo contributed to this report.

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Recordando a Jane Goodall, la gigante defensora de los animales, en imágenes

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La famosa primatóloga Jane Goodall falleció a los 91 años. Su investigación pionera con chimpancés y su defensa del medio ambiente a nivel mundial transformaron la conservación.

Goodall nació en Londres, Inglaterra, el 3 de abril de 1934.

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Jane fue una destacada etóloga, primatóloga y antropóloga, reconocida mundialmente por su extenso y pionero estudio de los chimpancés salvajes en el Parque Nacional Gombe Stream en Tanzania, una investigación que se extendió por más de sesenta años.

A la edad de 26 años, en 1960, viajó a Tanzania enviada por el famoso antropólogo Louis Leakey. Sus exhaustivas observaciones de campo revolucionaron a la comunidad científica al revelar comportamientos complejos en los chimpancés, como:

La capacidad de fabricar y utilizar herramientas, un rasgo que hasta entonces se creía exclusivo de los humanos.

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Que los chimpancés son omnívoros y no vegetarianos.

Una estructura social y conductas desarrolladas que incluían altruismo, forrajeo, caza e incluso guerra entre grupos.

La importancia de la crianza, la adopción y los lazos familiares.

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Goodall posa para un retrato en Nueva York para promocionar la película de Disneynature, «Nacida en China», el 7 de abril de 2017. Foto: Victoria Will/Invision/AP, archivo

A pesar de no haber cursado previamente estudios de grado, su extraordinario trabajo en terreno le permitió acceder y obtener un Doctorado en Etología por la Universidad de Cambridge en 1965.

En 1977, fundó el Instituto Jane Goodall para la Investigación, Educación y Conservación de la Vida Silvestre. A partir de 1986, dejó en gran medida el trabajo de campo para dedicarse al activismo y la conservación, viajando por el mundo como incansable defensora de la vida silvestre y Mensajera de la Paz de la ONU (desde 2002).

Goodall fue una figura clave que cambió la percepción humana sobre los chimpancés y es considerada una de las científicas de mayor impacto en el siglo XX y una de las activistas más influyentes del siglo XXI.

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Esta es una galería de fotos seleccionada por los editores de Associated Press:

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Goodall besa a Tess, una chimpancé hembra, en el Santuario de Chimpancés Sweetwaters, cerca de Nanyuki, al norte de Nairobi, el 6 de diciembre de 1997.

Foto: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, archivoFoto: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, archivo

El presidente Joe Biden entrega la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad, el mayor honor civil de la nación, a la conservacionista Jane Goodall en la Sala Este de la Casa Blanca, el 4 de enero de 2025, en Washington.

Foto: Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP, archivoFoto: Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP, archivo

La primatóloga, etóloga, antropóloga y Mensajera de la Paz de la ONU inglesa Jane Goodall observa gorilas después de descubrir la placa del fallecido primatólogo húngaro Geza Teleki en la Casa de los Simios del Zoológico de Budapest, en Budapest, Hungría, el 15 de junio de 2015.

Foto: AP/Chitose Suzuki, archivoFoto: AP/Chitose Suzuki, archivo

Goodall habla en un simposio de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, «El estatus legal evolutivo de los chimpancés», en Cambridge, Massachusetts, el 30 de septiembre de 2002.

Foto: AP /Bela Szandelszky, archivoFoto: AP /Bela Szandelszky, archivo

La etnóloga británica observa a uno de los gorilas del Zoológico de Budapest, Hungría, el 11 de febrero de 2008.

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La antropóloga británica Jane Goodall aparece en una fotografía de 1975, en paradero desconocido.

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La primatóloga y antropóloga inglesa Jane Goodall habla en un panel «Guardianes de la sabiduría de la Tierra» en la reunión anual del foro en Davos, Suiza, el 19 de enero de 2024.

Foto: AP/Charles Knoblock, archivo.Foto: AP/Charles Knoblock, archivo.

La primatóloga Jane Goodall revisa diapositivas antes de hacer una presentación en Chicago, el 9 de mayo de 1982.

Foto: AP/Craig Ruttle, archivoFoto: AP/Craig Ruttle, archivo

El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores francés, Laurent Fabius, de izquierda a derecha, la primatóloga Jane Goodall, el ex vicepresidente estadounidense Al Gore, el alcalde de Nueva York, Bill de Blasio, y el secretario general de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, participan en la Marcha de los Pueblos por el Clima en Nueva York, el 21 de septiembre de 2014.

Foto: AP/Bela Szandelszky, archivo.Foto: AP/Bela Szandelszky, archivo.

La primatóloga Jane Goodall besa a Pola, una cría de chimpancé de 14 meses del Zoológico de Budapest, que adoptó simbólicamente, el 20 de diciembre de 2004.

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La antropóloga Jane Goodall, a la derecha con su esposo Hugo van Lawick detrás de cámara, enero de 1974. El Barón Hugo van Lawick fue el primer esposo de Jane Goodall. Se casaron en 1964 y tuvieron un hijo, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, apodado «Grub,» nacido en 1967. Se divorciaron en 1974 después de una década de matrimonio.

Foto: AP/Brennan Linsley, archivoFoto: AP/Brennan Linsley, archivo

La primatóloga y conservacionista Jane Goodall pronuncia la 50ª Conferencia Memorial George Gamow en la Universidad de Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, el 1 de octubre de 2015.

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Russian leader responds to American conservative’s murder: ‘A disgusting atrocity’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the assassination of Charlie Kirk was a sign of a «deep rift» in American society, while offering his condolences to the family of the late conservative activist. 

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Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi at a forum of Russian experts, Putin addressed the killing, according to Reuters.

«This is a disgusting atrocity, especially since it was broadcast live. We all saw it. It was truly horrific,» Putin said. «First and foremost, I extend my condolences to Mr. Kirk’s family and all his loved ones. We sympathize and empathize.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned the killing of Charlie Kirk while speaking to a panel of Russian experts.  (Getty Images)

«What happened is a reflection of a deep division within society. In the United States, I don’t believe there is any need to escalate the situation externally, as the country’s political leadership is working to restore order domestically,» he added.

Kirk was shot and killed in September while speaking at Utah Valley University.

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His alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, faces seven charges, including aggravated homicide, which carries the potential death penalty; felony discharge of a firearm; obstruction and witness tampering.

Robinson returned to court Monday and is scheduled to appear again Oct. 30. Prosecutors said they had already gathered «voluminous» evidence against him.

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Charlie Kirk speaks before he is assassinated during Turning Point’s visit to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

Kirk’s murder has intensified debate over political violence in the United States. Republican leaders have urged Democrats to moderate their rhetoric toward President Donald Trump and to embrace greater tolerance for opposing views.

In addition to addressing Kirk’s death, Putin responded to Trump’s recent characterization of Russia as a «paper tiger.»

«A paper tiger? Then go deal with this paper tiger,» Putin said. «If we are fighting the entire NATO bloc, moving forward, advancing and feeling confident, and we are still called a paper tiger, then what does that make NATO itself?»

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Last week, Trump predicted Ukraine could reclaim all its territory from Russia before labeling Moscow a «paper tiger.»



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